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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Here's an EASY one for you [Character Set Interpretation]
Message-ID: <1116@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 91 08:41:15 GMT
References: <18f0bf14.ARN1771@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1080@cbmger.UUCP> <18f73ee5.ARN18a5@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1097@cbmger.UUCP> <18fa0585.ARN1913@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <18fa0585.ARN1913@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au writes:
>In article <1097@cbmger.UUCP>, Peter Kittel GERMANY writes:
>> 
>> You don't need to consider dead keys. You just design the final accented
>> chars. And thus things get really easy: For most of these MSB chars, you
>> can duplicate the entry for one pure char with MSB==0 and simply add a
>> little accent or umlaut to it, easy!

(see below)

>We are working at odds here, Peter; if I want to convert some text to BIGCHAR
>format, I pass a string to my program, and it uses the character passed as a
>jump into the font structure, and then I examine what bitmap is available, and
>print out that character.  In actuality, with a 8*8 font, I would construct
>eight lines of text seperately.

Well, perhaps time for a *deep* look into the RKM's, fonts chapter...

>NA.1 = "  ___  ";  NG.1 = "  ___  ";  NM.1 = " _   _ ";  NS.1 = "  _____"
>NA.2 = " /***\ ";  NG.2 = " /***\ ";  NM.2 = "|*\_/*|";  NS.2 = " /****/"
>NA.3 = "|*|_|*|";  NG.3 = "|*| ~~ ";  NM.3 = "|*\*/*|";  NS.3 = "<*<__  "
>NA.4 = "|*****|";  NG.4 = "|*| __ ";  NM.4 = "|*\*/*|";  NS.4 = " \***\ "
>NA.5 = "|*| |*|";  NG.5 = "|*||**|";  NM.5 = "|*| |*|";  NS.5 = "____>*>"
>NA.6 = "|*| |*|";  NG.6 = " \***/ ";  NM.6 = "|*| |*|";  NS.6 = "\****/ "

Yes, I meant *these* tables where you easily could duplicate these
lines for the "A" and create entries for accented "A" in your text
editor (not at run time). Only the naming of your arrays could become
sort of a problem...

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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